pragmateias

Strong’sG4230

a business, an occupation

stem pragmatei-once in the New Testament1 of 10 forms occur

What it means

What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.

πραγματεία, v.s. πραγματία.

G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.

Strong’s G4230 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidprag-mat-i'-ah

a transaction, i.e. negotiation

Fromfrom G4231;

King Jamesaffair.

James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.

Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in

πραγμᾰτ-εία,
Ionic dialectπρηγμᾰτίη, poetry πραγμᾰτίη Refs 4th c.AD+: ἡ:— prosecution of business, diligent study, Refs 5th c.BC+; ἡ μάταιος π. [λογισμῶν] this idle attention to argumentations, Refs 5th c.BC+; μετὰ πολλῆς π. with a great deal of trouble, Refs 3rd c.BC+
II occupation, business, ἡ π. αὐτῆς (i.e. τῆς ῥητορικῆς) ἅπασα.. εἰς τοῦτο τελευτᾷ Refs 5th c.BC+; ἡ τοῦ διαλέγεσθαι π. the business of dialectic, Refs; τοῦ πολιτικοῦ.. πᾶσα ἡ π. περὶ πόλιν [ἐστί] Arist Refs; ἡ δημηγορικὴ π. the business of oratory, Refs 4th c.BC+; πραγματεῖαι official duties, opposed to ἀρχαί, Refs 2nd c.BC+; especially law-business, lawsuit, Refs 5th c.BC+: plural, affairs in general, κάτω βλέπειν εἰς ἀνθρώπων πραγματείας Refs 5th c.BC+; troubles, Refs 4th c.BC+; πρὸς ἔθνη τὴν π. ἔχειν to have dealings with.., Refs 1st c.BC+
II.b plural, works, of the buildings of Solomon, LXX
III treatment of a subject, εἰδέων Refs 4th c.BC+; ἡ τοῦ ἐπιπέδου π., as a definition of plane geometry, Refs 5th c.BC+; ἡ Πλάτωνος π. Plato's system, Refs 4th c.BC+; manner of dealing with, ἡ περὶ τοὺς μάρτυρας π. Refs 4th c.BC+
III.2 philosophical argument or treatise, Refs; the subject of such a treatise, τρεῖς αἱ π. Refs 1st c.BC+
III.3 systematic or scientific historical treatise, Refs 2nd c.BC+; Τρωϊκὴ π. the legends of the Trojan war, Refs 5th c.BC+Aj.; π. συνέταξεν ἐν δράματι τῶν Δαρδάνου πράξεων τὰς μνημοσύνας Refs
III.4 magical operation, spell, ἡ Σολομῶνος π. Refs

H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.

Translated as

Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.

affairs1×

Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.

Biblang forms

Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.

Job in the sentence case	one singular	more than one plural
subject nominative	pragmateias	pragmateiais
object accusative	pragmateian	pragmateiain
direct address vocative	pragmateiar	pragmateiair
of, belonging to genitive	pragmateiau	pragmateiaiu
to, for dative	pragmateia	pragmateiai1×πραγματείαις

Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.

Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them

pragmateistem+agender+snru—its job in the sentence case+—ione · more than one number

pragmateia is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.

same in every form varies — every value shown

Where it appears

Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.

1 occurrence, every one of them listed

pragmateiai“affairs”to, fordative plural1×

2 Timothy 2:4oudenos strateuorōntos emplekotō tai tou biou pragmateiai, hina to stratologaranto areskateia;… refrains from entangling himself in civilian affairs, in order to please the one …